Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
labor and Parties.

LeOOr ana fortios.
The Democratic party OF New YorA
In its tight against Henry George enc
his party will not show 10 very good
advantage. II secs now thasthe Henry
George psrty 10 going 70 injure its pros
peots, and 1t will take but very feH
votes to tQrn the scale In that State
Mr.. George intends TO wage IN aggres
sive campaign aud to get votes wher
ever he cau. II will make NO differ.
enoe With him whe.her they come froG
the party with which he hes acted be
fore-she DemoorAtic party, he 10 ate
votes and that he will get more Demo
cratic than Republican votes 10 natural
The Democratic party is In . very
poor condition to combat the theorie
OF Henry George, as 1t has Away
made the most lavish professions Of de
votion to the interests Of the working
men, and strange to say the latter 81
ways believed the party to be In earn.
est. They never could see that the
Democratic party had done nothing for
then until Henry George show we'd them,
and he having been . member OF that
party 6new whereof he spoke. He was
aotuslly compelled TO get out OF the
Democratic party and cut loose from
Its dish onest pretenees and Its opposi
sion to the BEST interests OF the working
people. He could not consistently be o
champion Of the latter and preserve q
good standing In his old party.
Personal defamation OF H HsRry George
ia ~ lsh IL
form will NOT help the Democrats. He
has the dead wood on them oil the II ne,
as bis old time political friends have
been the most powerful foes to oil that
he now upholds and defends. His old
party was the greA. champion OF slAv.
cry and would have suffered the L sion
itself to be destroyed rather than con.
sent To the abolition OF huma an bon dsze.
The Dsmo1rA.ic PARTY OF to-day holds
the colored labor Of tie South In O most
cruel and oppressive srbi cotton through
organized deniA! aud SfEst OF rish 10
guaranteed by Republican ,egls alton.
All this Is agAlns. the inte.ects OF labor
and tends TO the degradsaor OF the
woik,ngman. It has alsays fought
against a soEs:.sAi law which gives
tne worklngmen a free shars Of the pub.
10 domain, Il has -. -'~~AA
lkAAis. ..TAys hrf.-.
:. and to-day 1t Is Arraig gned against
the protective tariff which defends
labor sgainst undue foreign compet,.
tion Of low priced labor, l.hss Always
denounced Any limitation os loreis 20 i'm
migration, rs the Republican platform
in Ohio now urges the exclusion OF i'm
migrants who are either not free or mol
worthy, and It has always placed itsel
In direct opposition to any restriction
whatever Of the liquor traffic.
But notwithstanding all these draw
backs, we fnd the Democratic party
disp osed to enter into en- active warfare
against Henry George. The working.
men Of the nation having by this time
been schooled In Adversity, will car.
tainly see o. less. that the Democratic
party is not Its friend. They will see
that however much soma OF the theories
OF Henry George may antagon!zs theil
views, they have no friend In the Dem
ocrAsic party. The Republican party
ts In . differen. position before ths
country. In com batting Henry G Gorge.
untenable positions In some respects, 1
has record In the pas. to which 1t il
not ashamed TO invite the scrutiny o
all other political organic ,tlons. /
points with pride to ths destru otlon c
slavery, the worst earthly foe to labor
II holds up to the world the sight o
freed tabor having bean rehA5ilitate
with the fran oblse AMI clothed iu tn
rights OF emo 5led manhood, from wh.oI
1t is dsbsrred from the free exercise o
thought and a,tion by the Dem ocrati
party. It points with glowing exults
tlon to . homestead law that reserve
the public domain for bona fde citi
zens that would settle upon them. !
measures up above the ignorance an
superstition OF the times, as II refers I
the fostered cause OF education, fndin
Its only foe In the Dam ocratic party
1t hestsates not TO point to . nation {
labor protected In their rights by . pre-
tective tariff that enables labor to liv
decently and to procure oom fortab bl
homes--A tariff thai the Democrat
party opposes and 10 trying to abolish
The record Of the past OF the Rspubli
can party will be the record OF It's IA
ture course. II workinsmeu woul
only believe II, they will find the,
rights better protected In this part
than In any other. Let 1t be distinc.l
understood that the protective tariff
TO be the issue In the coming nation,
campaign, the Republican party
favor OF 1t and the Demosratic psr,
arrAigned against 1t. II worklneme
would consider their true interests tn,
would SEQ that this Ia not the time
split off on side issues. 1t 10 tariff vi
good wages, or no tariff with po
wages, the Republican party In flv
OF the frft, the Democratic party
favor Of the latter, which will th
choose?